Marphysa stylobranchiata Moore, 1909

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Marphysa stylobranchiata Moore, 1909

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-171), (CZAP-069), (CZAP-254, CZAP-275); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (2), (3), (1, 1); Location: locality: Miramar, Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (1.5 m), (1.5 m, 4.0 m)

Distribution

Pacific coast (Monterey Bay) and Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Alagoas, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020h).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017), Miramar and Maceió Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Knox and Green 1972, Nonato and Luna 1970, Paxton 2009): Prostomium with a short anterior incision, with two eyes and five smooth antennae. Jaws eulabidognath-type (asymmetrical, posterior parts dentate to Mithraculus forceps -like, short carriers). Formula (maxillae): 1+1, 4+4 to 5, 4+0, 3 to 4+6 and 1+1. Peristomial cirri absent (Fig. 3 c). Branchiae with only one filament from chaetiger 20. Anterior dorsal cirri longer than posterior ones. Neuropodia with cirri smaller than dorsal ones; falcigers chaetae; 1-5 dark aciculae and dark subacicular unidentate hooks.